{"id":12184,"date":"2014-03-03T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2014-03-03T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:59:09","slug":"on-critcism-and-the-craft-beer-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/on-critcism-and-the-craft-beer-community\/","title":{"rendered":"On critcism and the “craft beer community”"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 03.03.14<\/strong><\/p>\n

– In craft beer community, everyone’s a critic \u2014 and that can be good.<\/strong><\/a> Do we give Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing in St. Petersburg, Fla., high marks, low marks, or something between for this thought? “It is absolutely appropriate for consumers to criticize craft brewers. The fact is that standards must remain extremely high. People should expect the best and I think they should get it. I don’t think that positive or negative criticism is a bad thing. I think that uneducated criticism is.” I was doing fine until he got to the uneducated<\/em> part. Not sure who should be the arbiter there. [Via Tampa Bay Times]<\/strong> <\/p>\n

– Was it ever Gruit Britain? The herb ale tradition.<\/strong><\/a> “… it would certainly be wrong to say, or imply, that ‘gruit’ was the name applied to herb ales in Britain in the pre-hop period. So don\u2019t, please.” [Via Martyn Cornell’s Zythophile]<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Braukunst Live! 2014.<\/strong><\/a> As the headline suggests, this post focuses on “new school” breweries at Braukunst Live! Start there, but take the time for three other related posts. [Via The Bitten Bullet]<\/strong> <\/p>\n

– Virginia breweries go to the farm.<\/strong><\/a> The new Farm Brewery license for breweries is for those that manufacture no more than 15,000 barrels of beer per calendar year; are located on a farm in Virginia; and use agricultural products that are grown on the farm in the manufacture of their beer. [Via Yours For Good Fermentables]<\/strong><\/p>\n

– “Big beer” innovation – Q&A with MillerCoors brewmaster.<\/strong><\/a> A question you sure as heck would not have heard asked 10 years ago at a brewery, let alone at one of the largest brewing companies in the world: “Are you a certified cicerone?” [Via Paste]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 03.03.14 – In craft beer community, everyone’s a critic \u2014 and that can be good. Do we give Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing in St. Petersburg, Fla., high marks, low marks, or something between for this thought? “It is absolutely appropriate for consumers to criticize craft brewers. The fact is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}